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I broke my month-long boycott of Facebook today. Within 45 minutes, I scheduled my account for deletion. Good riddance, I say!

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So, Facebook has finally shown how little they care about the needs and wants of their users, and completely switched to the new design today, no more workarounds. I’ve not gone and deleted my account, but I’m instead refusing to access Facebook at all for a month or so. After that time, if they’ve not accepted what is asked of them, I’ll obliterate my account.

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Yeah, I admit it. I use Facebook. But as they plan to switch over to their widely panned new design without option for anyone to keep the old, I’m just inches away from deleting my account and not using Facebook again. That design is broken, unhelpful, and confusing to a lot of people. It takes away most of the control I have over my profile, and what little it gives back is entirely ridiculous.

Something that everyone and his dog have been into on the internet these past couple of years has been social networking and the whole "Web 2.0" thing. There are problems with how it currently works, however. Today, everyone goes to social network portals, such as MySpace or Facebook, and while this may be easier for the less technically apt, it's pretty annoying when everyone's trying to get you to use this or that "app" for your portal of choice.